Discussing the Concepts 1. Define marketing and discuss how it is more than just “telling and selling”. Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. The two fold goal of marketing is to attract new customers by promising superior value and to keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction. The old sense of making a sale is telling and selling‚ but in new sense it is satisfying customer needs. Selling occurs only after a
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1. What are the essential characteristics of a marketing-oriented company? Marketing oriented companies focus on customer needs and get close to their customers so that they understand their needs and problems. In the past‚ the Traditional Marketing Concept was achieved their profit and other objectives by satisfying customers but it neglects the competition. But now‚ the Modern Marketing Concept it achieve the corporate goals through meeting and exceeding customer needs and expectations better
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KEY MARKETING CONCEPTS Marketing Research December 13‚ 2011 Marketing is very important and a key concept in creating a successful business. “Marketing is the management process responsible for identifying‚ anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably” (Chartered Institute of Marketing). The primary purpose of a business is to obtain and retain customers. Through key marketing concepts‚ businesses have the opportunity to obtain customers which is vital to the life
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but in this article the term "consumerism" refers to the sense first used in 1960‚ "emphasis on or preoccupation with the acquisition of consumer goods" (Oxford English Dictionary). THE CONSUMERISM MOVEMENT AS THE CATALYST FOR THE SOCIETAL MARKETING CONCEPT The latest consumerism movement is a cause that has been accumulating momentum for over 30 years in the U.S.‚ and its disciples assert that all consumers have an inherent right to products which are: safe in use (and even misuse)‚ effective
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Marketing concept and process Assignment Introduction In this assignment I will be explaining the general definitions of marketing and the concept and process of marketing. Marketing can be define in many different ways but all of them have the same point‚ Marketing is the process by which companies determine what products or services may be of interest to customers‚ and the strategy to use in sales‚ communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques
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Summary Definition of Marketing Marketing is not manipulating consumers to get them to buy products they do not want and it is not just selling and advertising. Marketing is a group of activities designed to expedite transactions by creating‚ distributing‚ pricing‚ and promoting goods‚ services‚ and ideas. Marketing facilitates the exchange‚ the act of giving up one thing in return for something else. The central focus of marketing is to satisfy needs. (Example) People is willing to exchange
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production concept marketers believe that customers will favor products that are available and in expensive‚ while Product concept makes marketers believe that the customers will favor products with most quality‚ features and performance. Under production concept‚ product gets cheap but under product concept‚ product usually gets expensive. Both of these concepts can lead to marketing myopia‚ but still useful in some situations. Products like ‘sun chips’ can follow the production concept‚ because Bangladesh
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Question 1 Identify three key characteristics of the marketing concept. ‘Marketing concept is a philosophy that an organisation should try to provide products and services that satisfy customer’s needs through a coordinated set of activities that also allows the organisation to achieve its goals’ (Dibb‚ 2012:18). According to marketing concept customers should be at the centre of all the organisations activities. Therefore all departments of organisation are responsible for customer satisfaction
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surrounding environment that influences consumers and the marketing organization. When we ask ‘is there a market for this product?’ we are asking whether there are people who would want to buy/use that product. An important part of marketing is analyzing the environment and identifying market needs. You cant successfully promote or sell a product if you don’t know who the potential customers are what’s important to them. The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product
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Marketing is the process of communicating the value of a product or service to customers‚ for the purpose of selling that product or service. Marketing techniques include choosing target markets through market analysis and market segmentation‚ as well as understandingconsumer behavior and advertising a product’s value to the customer. From a societal point of view‚ marketing is the link between a society’s material requirements and its economic patterns of response. Marketing satisfies these needs
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